Word: nuclear
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Likeliest Guess. Between the two sides there still exists what one Soviet expert calls "a limited adversary relationship." It is not clear why the Russians chose to make some of their conciliatory gestures on nuclear arms. The likeliest guess remains the most obvious: prudent self-interest, a desire to avoid the scattering of nuclear weapons to small nations, and a grim, costly race between the U.S. and Russia to build antiballistic-missile systems. But there is a more intriguing theory-that the Russians acted now because they are concerned about the prospect that Richard Nixon may be the next President...
...talks in terms of giving the President emergency powers to deal with malnutrition among the poor, and has come out for an international arms-control plan that calls on the U.S. to take the first step unilaterally. He would have the U.S. halt deployment of new offensive and defensive nuclear missiles...
...home, the Kremlin is having its own persistent problems with Russia's dissident intellectuals, who continue to badger the regime to relax its tight control on free expression. Last week the latest and most daring demand for reform came from a prominent Soviet nuclear scientist, whose 10,000-word essay -entitled "Thoughts About Progress, Peaceful Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom"-is being clandestinely circulated among a small circle of Russian writers, scientists and artists. In it, Andrei Sakharov, 47, demands nothing less in Communist Russia than an entirely free society enjoying complete intellectual liberty...
...leave in Sasebo. In April, Tokyo housewives marched in protest against the opening of a hospital for U.S. troops wounded in Viet Nam, and a month later a wave of fear swept the nation with reports that Sasebo's waters showed evidence of high radiation while the U.S. nuclear submarine Swordfish was in port. Last week, however, Sato's gamble paid off: in nationwide elections, his Liberal Democrats retained their majority in the Diet's upper house for another three years...
Three Reforms. Even so, Western diplomats may find temporary solace in the fact that for some time France will lack the economic strength to speculate against the pound and dollar. Despite its announcement of impending nuclear tests, France must also slow down the development of its force de frappe, whose creation runs directly counter to the present world trend of bringing nuclear weaponry under controls. Charles de Gaulle will now have to pay much more attention to domestic affairs. He has already moved fast in the area of greatest peril, the economic front. Despite France's huge foreign-reserve...